Future Quotes

“My grief lies onward, and my joy behind.”

“O! that a man might know The end of this day's business, ere it come; But it sufficeth that the day will end, And then the end is known.”

“The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.”

“The day shall not be up so soon as I,To try the fair adventure of tomorrow.”

“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day”

“The golden age is before us, not behind us.”

“Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you”

“There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased, The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured.”

“For the success,Although particular, shall give a scantlingOf good or bad unto the general;And in such indexes, although small pricksTo their subsequent volumes, there is seenThe baby figure of the giant massOf things to come at large.”

“Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.”

“The happiest youth, viewing his progress through,What perils past, what crosses to ensue,Would shut the book, and sit him down and die.”

“I wish you well and so I take my leave,I Pray you know me when we meet again.”

“Luckily for us, now that steam has narrowed the Atlantic to a strait, the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and continental element into the national mind, as we shall yet have an American genius.”

“Meantime the education of the general mind never stops. The reveries of the true and simple are prophetic. What the tender poeticyouth dreams, and prays, and paints today, but shuns the ridicule of saying aloud, shall presently be the resolutions of public bodies, then shall be carried as grievance and bill of rights through conflict and war, and then shall be triumphant law and establishment for a hundred years, until it gives place, in turn, to new prayers and pictures.”

“Women, as most susceptible, are the best index of the coming hour.”

“The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.”

“He who would be a great soul in the future, must be a great soul now.”

“Let us advance on Chaos and the Dark”

“How many ages henceShall this our lofty scene be acted overIn states unborn and accents yet unknown!”

“But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.”

“Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future”

“Genius appeals to the future.”

“Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.”

“Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.”

“Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks.”